Welcome to my blog and thanks soso much for spending a little while peeping into my world

... all from my little home studio in Durban, on the east coast of sunny South Africa!

"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird." -- Paul McCartney

Saturday, April 25, 2015

There's a new challenge today at Bugaboo Stamps, and there's a photograph to inspire you.

This is how I was inspired:

by this photograph:

(I was inspired by the sunflowers)

To create my card, I printed the sentiment and the image called Flower Jar from the Bugaboo Stamps store, onto kraft-like cardstock, and coloured it using alcohol markers, a white gel pen and Glossy Accents.

Monday, April 20, 2015

I run a small monthly creative papercrafts workshop in Durban, South Africa, and on 2 May we will be making this BOX, as one of the six projects I have planned.

To create it I designed this box, made from 20cm x 20cm blue cardstock. I have a piece of pattern paper on the from and back, as well as a sentiment printed onto cream cardstock. It is decorated with two x 3 layer diecut flowers with pearl centres.

The top of the box has been punched and has a ribbon holding it closed.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

The CAS challenge at The Outlawz today is "Do Something Different". Now that's kind of hard for me because I like to try my hand at everything. What I have never done, however, is to use my doodling on a card, using a white gel pen on black cardstock.